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We are amid through the 2017 Champions League accumulation stage, and no aggregation has had a added active aperture three amateur than Chelsea.
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Official | Uefa Champions League Group Stage 2017/18 Draw Result ... | champions league draw 2017The Blues came from abaft to exhausted Atletico with absolutely the aftermost bang of their Matchday 2 tie in Madrid. But Wednesday at Stamford Bridge, it was their about-face to ahem up a lead. Or rather, it was Roma’s about-face to arise a beauteous comeback.
Ex-Manchester City duo Aleksandar Kolarov and Edin Dzeko accumulated to abolish a 2-0 arrears and actuate Roma into a 3-2 advance with 20 account remaining. Dzeko’s bifold comprised a aerial left-footed advance and adeptness attack that put Roma in front. But bristles account later, Eden Hazard ensured the boodle would be shared. He flicked a attack of his own accomplished Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson to cap a agrarian 3-3 draw in London.
It’s there that we’ll activate our Wednesday Champions League recap. It was the bold of the day. And it claimed that appellation abundantly acknowledgment to the visitors, not the hosts.
Chelsea, which entered on a run of two afterwards losses, couldn’t array itself out for abundant of the evening. David Luiz started in midfield alongside Tiemoue Bakayoko and Cesc Fabregas, with Alvaro Morata and Hazard somewhat abandoned up top. Roma, on the added hand, was flowing. The brawl was zipping about Stamford Bridge. The Italians were assuredly the bigger team.
But Luiz, as ambiguous as ever, stepped up to coil a admirable 25-yard attempt accomplished Alisson to put Chelsea in front:
With Roma still acutely in the ascendancy, those abandoned advanced two afresh addled adjoin the run of comedy again. They capitalized on a Roma giveaway, and afresh a looping angle to Hazard at the far post:
Roma had to accept acquainted adamantine done by. But its players ashen little time with head-hanging. Account later, Kolarov skipped accomplished a Chelsea apostle and stung a deflected attempt accomplished Thibaut Courtois to cull a ambition aback afore halftime.
Dzeko’s majestic advance collapsed the bold at 2-2 afterwards the break. It’s a accepted adversary for ambition of the competition. And it was aloof accolade for Roma’s superiority.
The Bosnian advanced afresh snuck in amid Chelsea defenders on a set piece. Kolarov’s abandoned larboard basal provided admirable service, and Dzeko nodded home the Serb’s aerated cantankerous to complete Roma’s doubtful comeback.
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Get your 2016/2017 UEFA Champions league Draws - GEN SOCCER® | champions league draw 2017But Hazard had the final say:
The aftereffect kept Chelsea and Roma in the top two spots in the group. That’s because beforehand in the day, Atletico Madrid acclimatized for a 0-0 draw adjoin FK Qarabag in Azerbaijan. The Spanish ancillary is winless through three games, and will acceptable accept to exhausted at atomic one of Roma or Chelsea on the final two matchdays to accomplish up for absent points.
Elsewhere in Europe on Wednesday…
Manchester United adored by an 18-year-old’s error
With an hour gone and goals absent from Manchester United’s toughest bout of the accumulation stage, at Benfica, article out of the accustomed was consistently activity to be all-important to breach the deadlock. United lacked impetus, and lacked action to go in chase of a winner. A draw would accept ill-fitted Jose Mourinho’s ancillary aloof fine, and Mourinho has never been abashed to achieve for a point.
But on 64 minutes, that amazing moment arrived. It wasn’t a absolute bit of accomplishment or a 40-yard chargeless kick. Well, actually, it was a 40-yard chargeless kick. But Marcus Rashford’s commitment isn’t the talking point. Benfica’s 18-year-old goalkeeper, Mile Slivar, is:
Slivar had fabricated his Benfica admission aloof four canicule earlier, in a 1-0 calm cup win, and became the youngest goalkeeper to alpha a Champions League bout in the history of the competition. Iker Casillas had ahead captivated the record.
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And the Belgian jailbait looked to be on his way to a memorable apple-pie area to mark the occasion. He had been almost composed through an hour. But he took an aberrant footfall advanced as Rashford approached. He raced aback to access the brawl afore it beyond the line, but goal-line technology accepted that his drive had agitated him and the brawl aback into his own net.
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Rijeka Learn UEFA Champions League Qualifying Opponents | Croatia Week | champions league draw 2017United, admitting a asleep performance, captivated on for a third-straight Champions League win. It maintained a three-point advance aloft Accumulation A over FC Basel, which exhausted CSKA Moscow 2-0.
Slivar’s aberration was costly. But Benfica, which had absent its aboriginal two matches, bare three points, not one. The absolute abortion was that of the 10 outfield players, who couldn’t acquisition a way accomplished a bunched United and David De Gea.
For Slivar, it’s a moment to apprentice from, not to rue. United striker Romelu Lukaku fabricated abiding his agriculturist was acquainted of that in a affecting post-match moment:
Barcelona wins admitting awkward start, Pique red
Barcelona wasn’t absolutely in top anatomy at a rain-soaked Camp Nou, with hundreds of seats in the lower levels empty. But it jumped into a first-half advance via an Olympiacos own goal:
The own ambition appeared to put the bold to bed. Barcelona, at home, a ambition up, arresting the brawl adjoin an inferior adversary … what could go wrong?
Gerard Pique answered that. He was appointed for a abhorrent amid through the half. With the breach approaching, he arranged a deflected cantankerous over the ambition band with his hand. There was bright intent, alike it it was aloof a baby autogenetic movement, and Pique was apparent a additional yellow.
Alas, it didn’t matter. Olympiacos was so inferior that, alike adjoin 10 men, it could almost get a blow of the ball. It sat in its arresting shape, afraid to appear out of its shell. It went added abaft to Lionel Messi’s 100th European goal, a well-placed 61st-minute chargeless kick:
Lucas Digne put the bold able-bodied and absolutely to bed with a brittle left-footed bang that whistled into the basal corner. Olympiacos pulled a ambition aback backward with a header, but Barcelona’s win was never in agnosticism afterwards Messi hit the aeon mark.
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City draws Barcelona in Champions League - Saudi Gazette | champions league draw 2017Juventus, meanwhile, kept clip with the Blaugrana by cheating accomplished Sporting CP, 2-1.
PSG’s advanced three dazzle, Bayern cruises
The big boys are amid themselves in Accumulation B – and alone Paris Saint-Germain’s win over Bayern Munich on Matchday 2 separates the two of them afterwards both won on Wednesday.
PSG didn’t absolutely accept a comfortable afternoon in Belgium. The final score, 4-0, doesn’t absolutely accede with the absoluteness of the 90 minutes. The Parisians and their counterparts, Anderlecht, aggregate the brawl evenly. Each recorded six shots on target. Anderlecht abnormally captivated its own aboriginal on.
But Kylian Mbappe gave the Ligue 1 leaders a 1-0 advantage central three minutes. Edinson Cavani angled it anon afore halftime. And Neymar ensured all three of the alarming advanced band got in on the act with a ambition of his own in the 66th minute. Angel Di Maria afresh affective a fourth PSG ambition backward on.
Bayern, meanwhile, hosted Celtic, and was additionally 2-0 up at halftime. Thomas Muller and Joshua Kimmich got the first-half goals.
Mats Hummels fabricated it three in the 51st minute, and the Bavarians strolled to a 3-0 victory.
Other scores
Juventus 2-1 Sporting CPFK Qarabag 0-0 Atletico MadridCSKA Moscow 0-2 FC Basel
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